A wide medium blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top of the flag; the remainder of the flag is medium blue with seven full five-pointed white stars and two half stars top and bottom along the hypotenuse of the triangle.
There are two first-order administrative divisions and one internationally supervised district* - Brcko district (Brcko Distrikt)*, the Bosniak/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina) and the Bosnian Serb-led Republika Srpska. Brcko district is in northeastern Bosnia and is an administrative unit under the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is not part of either Republika Srpska or the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; the district remains under international supervision.
Population:
4,552,198 ( July 2007 est.)
Languages:
Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
Geographic coordinates:
44° 00' N, 18° 00' E
Area total:
51,129 sq. km
Land area:
51,129 sq. km
Water area:
0 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
1,459 km
Borders with neighbor countries:
Croatia 932 km, Serbia 391 km, Montenegro 225 km
Coastline:
20 km
Elevation extremes:
Adriatic Sea 0 m - Maglic 2,386 m
Internet country code:
.ba
Currency:
marka (BAM)
Name - conventional long form:
none
Name - conventional short form:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Name - local long form:
none
Name - local short form:
Bosna i Hercegovina
Independence:
1 March 1992 (from Yugoslavia, referendum for independence was completed 1 March 1992, independence was declared 3 March 1992)
Constitution:
the Dayton Agreement, signed 14 December 1995, included a new constitution now in force each of the entities also has its own constitution